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Javier Guitian is affiliated with the Royal Veterinary College in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences and medicine, with notable contributions in infectious diseases, food science, agronomy and crop science, small animals, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work covers several main topics including animal disease management and epidemiology, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, zoonotic diseases and public health, brucella diagnosis, epidemiology and treatment, salmonella and campylobacter epidemiology, food safety and hygiene, and viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Frequent publication venues for Guitian include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • PLoS ONE
  • Food Control

Some of the more recent papers associated with Javier Guitian's research are:

  • Increased outbreaks of monkeypox highlight gaps in actual disease burden in Sub-Saharan Africa and in animal reservoirs, 2022, International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Invasive alien species and disease risk: An open challenge in public and animal health, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Global prioritization of endemic zoonotic diseases for conducting surveillance in domestic animals to protect public health, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Epidemiology of brucellosis in cattle and dairy farmers of rural Ludhiana, Punjab, 2021, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Prevalence, antibiotic resistance and genotypes of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolated from chickens in Irbid governorate, Jordan, 2020, International Journal of Food Microbiology

Javier Guitian's frequent co-authors include:

  • Matteo Crotta
  • Punam Mangtani
  • Ehab A. Abu-Basha
  • Imadidden Musallam
  • Jacqueline M. Cardwell

Best Publications

  • Risk factors for clinical endometritis in postpartum dairy cattle.

    Timothy J. Potter;Javier Guitian;John Fishwick;Patrick J. Gordon

  • Angiostrongylus vasorum infection in 23 dogs (1999–2002)

    P. S. Chapman;A. K. Boag;J. Guitian;A. Boswood

  • Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing.

    Ramesh J. Pandit;Ankit T. Hinsu;Namrata V. Patel;Prakash G. Koringa

  • Brucella spp. infection in large ruminants in an endemic area of Egypt: cross-sectional study investigating seroprevalence, risk factors and livestock owner's knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAPs)

    Hannah R Holt;Mahmoud M Eltholth;Mahmoud M Eltholth;Yamen M Hegazy;Yamen M Hegazy;Wael F El-Tras

  • Interventions for avian influenza A (H5N1) risk management in live bird market networks.

    Guillaume Fournié;Javier Guitian;Stéphanie Desvaux;Vu Chi Cuong

  • Evaluation of a Quality-of-Life Tool for Cats with Diabetes Mellitus

    S J M Niessen;S L Powney;J Guitian;A P M Niessen

  • Poultry movement networks in Cambodia: implications for surveillance and control of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI/H5N1).

    Maria D. Van Kerkhove;Sirenda Vong;Javier Guitian;Davun Holl

  • Brucella infection in fresh water fish: Evidence for natural infection of Nile catfish, Clarias gariepinus, with Brucella melitensis

    Wael F. El-Tras;Ahmed A. Tayel;Mahmoud M. Eltholth;Mahmoud M. Eltholth;Javier Guitian

  • Past and Ongoing Tsetse and Animal Trypanosomiasis Control Operations in Five African Countries: A Systematic Review.

    Anne Meyer;Hannah R. Holt;Richard Selby;Javier Guitian

  • Ruminant Brucellosis in the Kafr El Sheikh Governorate of the Nile Delta, Egypt: Prevalence of a Neglected Zoonosis

    Yamen M. Hegazy;Yamen M. Hegazy;Amgad Moawad;Salama Osman;Anne Ridler

  • Invasive alien species and disease risk: An open challenge in public and animal health.

    Eleonora Chinchio;Matteo Crotta;Claudia Romeo;Julian A. Drewe

  • Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in Ethiopia: analysis of a national serological survey.

    Agnès Waret-Szkuta;François Roger;David Chavernac;Laikemariam Yigezu

  • Identifying live bird markets with the potential to act as reservoirs of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus: a survey in northern Viet Nam and Cambodia.

    Guillaume Fournié;Javier Guitian;Stéphanie Desvaux;Punam Mangtani

  • Identifying hotspots for antibiotic resistance emergence and selection, and elucidating pathways to human exposure: Application of a systems-thinking approach to aquaculture systems

    Lucy A. Brunton;Andrew P. Desbois;Maria Garza;Barbara Wieland

  • Association of portovenographic findings with outcome in dogs receiving surgical treatment for single congenital portosystemic shunts: 45 cases (2000–2004)

    Karla C L Lee;Victoria J Lipscomb;Christopher R Lamb;Susan P Gregory

  • Evaluation of a quality-of-life tool for dogs with diabetes mellitus.

    S J M Niessen;S J M Niessen;S L Powney;J Guitian;A P M Niessen

  • Control of a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in the GB poultry flock

    James Truscott;Tini Garske;Tini Garske;Irina Chis-Ster;Javier Guitian

  • Cross-sectional study of brucellosis in Jordan: Prevalence, risk factors and spatial distribution in small ruminants and cattle.

    I.I. Musallam;M. Abo-Shehada;M. Omar;J. Guitian

  • Infertility and abortion among first-lactation dairy cows seropositive or seronegative for Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo.

    Javier Guitian;Mark Thurmond;Sharon K. Hietala

  • Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Associated with Brucellosis in Livestock Owners in Jordan.

    Imadidden I. Musallam;Mahmoud N. Abo-Shehada;Javier Guitian

  • Herd-level prevalence of selected endemic infectious diseases of dairy cows in Great Britain.

    Martina Velasova;Angela Damaso;Bhagyalakshmi Chengat Prakashbabu;Jenny Gibbons

  • Assessment of animal African trypanosomiasis (AAT) vulnerability in cattle-owning communities of sub-Saharan Africa

    H. R. Holt;Richard Selby;C. Mumba;G. B. Napier

  • The Big Pet Diabetes Survey: Perceived Frequency and Triggers for Euthanasia

    Stijn J.M. Niessen;Katarina Hazuchova;Sonya L. Powney;Javier Guitian

  • Cross-Sectional Study of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Pig Farms in England

    Georgina Limon;Wendy Beauvais;Nikolaos Dadios;Isabelle Villena

  • Illumina Next Generation Sequencing for the Analysis of Eimeria Populations in Commercial Broilers and Indigenous Chickens

    Ankit T Hinsu;Jalpa R Thakkar;Prakash G Koringa;Vladimir Vrba

  • A case study of capture-recapture methodology using scrapie surveillance data in Great Britain.

    Victor J. del Rio Vilas;Robin Sayers;Kumar Sivam;Dirk Pfeiffer

  • Live bird markets characterization and trading network analysis in Mali: Implications for the surveillance and control of avian influenza and Newcastle disease

    Sophie Molia;Ismaël Ardho Boly;Raphaël Duboz;Boubacar Coulibaly

  • Epidemiology of brucellosis in cattle and dairy farmers of rural Ludhiana, Punjab.

    Hannah R. Holt;Jasbir Singh Bedi;Paviter Kaur;Punam Mangtani

  • Analysis of data from the passive surveillance of scrapie in Great Britain between 1993 and 2002

    V. J. del Rio Vilas;J. Guitian;D. U Pfeiffer;J. W. Wilesmith

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk U. Pfeiffer
Dirk U. Pfeiffer City University of Hong Kong
Damer P. Blake
Damer P. Blake Royal Veterinary College
Azra C. Ghani
Azra C. Ghani Imperial College London
Martin J. Green
Martin J. Green University of Nottingham
François Roger
François Roger University of Montpellier
Isabelle Villena
Isabelle Villena University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Edoardo Pozio
Edoardo Pozio Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Fiona M. Tomley
Fiona M. Tomley Royal Veterinary College
Jonathan Rushton
Jonathan Rushton University of Liverpool
Frank Katzer
Frank Katzer Moredun Research Institute

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